the point of social activism isn’t equality or loving each other, it’s about breaking down dangerous power systems when are people gonna get this - neptunain

Lawyer: Did he rape her ( Read more... )

"Not all men are like that."

That’s fine. What are you doing about the ones that are?
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I was a five-year-old. My parents told-my father told us that we were going on a long vacation to a place called Arkansas. It was an adventure. I thought everyone took vacations by leaving home in a railroad car with sentries, armed soldiers at both ends of the car, sitting on wooden benches. And whenever we approached a town, we were forced to ( Read more... )

it’s funny, people will generally allow you to have an opinion on goods and services that you consume ( Read more... )

The sex drive of men is something we are all comfortable with in this country. It’s funny and hormonal and slapstick (American Pie), it’s potentially uncontrollable, maniacal/homicidal (American Psycho), it is adulterous and is insatiable (American Beauty), it is fun and social (American Graffiti) and it is entrepreneurial (American Gigolo). But ( Read more... )

Melissa McEwan:

The next time I am met with a demand for “evidence” when I report incidents of harm as a result of oppression, this is going to be my script: “I am giving you evidence in the form of my lived experience. In so doing, I am asking you to care. About me and about the other people to whom these things are also done. If you care, you ( Read more... )

whats it with people calling japanese characters from japanese anime who live in japan and speak japanese and have japanese names white

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Jennifer Dziura, "When Men Get Too Emotional to Have a Rational Argument":
I wish to dispel the notion that women are “more emotional.” I don’t think we are. I think that the emotions women stereotypically express are what men call “emotions,” and the emotions that men typically express are somehow considered by men to be something else ( Read more... )